The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1897, Page 24

S THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1897. “You can buy almost anything vou| want,” said Bessie, gayly. | “Well,” continued grandma, *I shall | want you to have your dishes in perfect | order. After you get them ready for in- spection you may place them on the round table so they will show off ata good ad- The G. R. G. Motto. “Act well your part; there all the honor | lies.” { While children’s societies and clubs are very important features of the lead: ing Eastern papers and magazines, little attention been paid to the subject in the West until the San Fran- cisco CALL esiablished *“Childhood’s Realm Club” in connection with its unday edi- tion. Therefore, C. R. C. is the pioneer children’s newsy the Pacific Coast. Thatit has proved a popnlar fea- ture isshown by the fact that 136 boys and girls of California, r society on Washington and gon are enrolled as members. y the Wayside. It s told in an Eastern sto That when Mars took her flight | b the Holy ( e unspotted, he world in him; upernal ! bt air dim, | And the breeze bent low to bear it, | Earth oding breast | Ana »wers most precious Embowere wcred rest, How often with happy meaning The story comes back to me, ! When some trusiing, humble pilgr On the journey of life I se Who, waliing a desert pathway | From the rld afar { Heers eve hild’s whisper, i Sees ev starl Who with word of And love's perpetu Gives a beantifu To the solita er unfailing, grace, Oh, fresh and sweet w That pillowed Madon But they blossom 1 the roses wherever Tke pure and the taithful tread. | FRANCS L. MACE. NoTE: The rose of Jericho, also calied tne rose of the is considered the bo! of traditions, by resurrection. 0id which the above sy tie poem no doubt was inspired, state that it marked evers spot where the holy family rested during the jour- ney to Jerusalc M. W.R. R Boy. My teacher says [am to write a compo- sition—that my subject shall be “Boy.”’ Now, if my teacher had been a prophet, endowed with all the powers of penetrat- ing that mystic veil which hides the com- | ing events from our inquiring minds, she could not have given me a task I could | have performed more willingly, for I am | aboy. Ishall neither attempt to paliiate nor deny that fact. Aye, more, 1 freely confess I have long | been a boy. Even from the time of my | earliest recollections — for fifteen long | years—I have never ceased to be a boy. Ispeak thus freely that you may know that what Iam about to say is spoken by one who has experienced all the panes | and vicissituaes of outraged boyhood. | I was not a very old boy before I noticed that when my sister or others acted in an | unusually loud and noisy manner at play | it was called boisterous. Or when some | mischievous lout to startle us at night | A Jealous Boy. | mirthful, healthful. | “Farewell, farewell, both friends and school threw an old tin can, with rocks in it, against our door or on our porch, it was called a boisterous act. | Even my father, in condemning an act of some man who had failed to live up to his agreement, said that man has played | ihe boy, or shown himself a boy; or, if in court, “‘had pleaded the boy act.” My teacher, even to my face, has said | some reaton I had given was buta “boy ish reason,”” or some thought was but a “*bovish” thought or *‘boyish™ notion. In fact so many vile and scurrilous at- tributes were connected with that wora “boy” that I soucht Webster for relief And what was my reward? A lamb once sought the den of a wolf for pro- tection irom the storm. And 1n this case I found that Webster was my wolf and I had been his lamb. Now, I had stood by Webster many ¥ Ioften quoted him; even consid- ered him my friend and tellow-student. Yet I must own I had never before con- suited him upon the subject now before | us. On that one word he says but little, yet that litile is too much. He says *‘boy’’ is used in contempt for a man; that *‘boy- ish"” means trifling, puerile, and when he | comes to define “boisterous,” why there is scarce an evil-meaning adjective that Webster has not used as synonymous | with that one word; ‘“rough, roaring, | stormy, turbulent, tumultuous, violent and vehement” are but samples of his opinion of the proper attributes of that one word. Webster and I are not so familiar now. Do human beings all have so poor ovinions of boys and boyish ways and | boisterous ncts as to consider those slan- | derous words appropriate 1o the stronzer and more active half of the younger, hap- pier and more contented half of their | own numbers? No. The girls smile upon us, the ladies find something in us to ad- mire, and were the men and boys united in that base opinion of us it would be but | a tie vote. Boy, then, holds the casting vote, and that contemptible estimate is but a mi- nority report of one-four:h the committee of the whole human race. And that mi- nority wonld seek to appropriate to itself | every worthy or noble act vf a boy by call- ing it maniy instead of boyish. That minority seems to forget that| many of their own most worthy prin- ciples and noble qualities were instilled into their very beings while they were one among us, and should therefore be known as boyish, not as manly principles, If my mother, instead of some vain, con- ceited man, baa written the dictionaries boyish would have been defined as natural, open, candid and happy, while boisterous | would have meant pleasant, agreeable, Were a boy to write a dictionary I hope he would do nearer justice to the word | manly than man has done to boisterous; | and were be to put therein a word man- sterous he would not give monstrous as a synonym. “ONE o Tues.” s et The GClose of School. L “Farewell, farewell, my dear old school That I have loved *o well. | Farewell! Ileave thee; for how long 1 really cannot tel I may notcome to thee again, To study day by day, For when rour doors you ope once morc Imay be far awey. 1L | “Within thy walls both boys and girls Have gathered every day, | Thy halls have rung with shouts and calls, And children’s laughter gay. Here hopes were born, and plans were laid, And disappointments came. Lessons were learned and songs were sung. Ah, dear is every name! 111 Whom I have loved so well. Fatewell, I leave thee; for how long 1 really cannot tell. Vacation comes on fairy wings And children all are glad. Of all the happy, lauzhing throng, Just Ialone am sad. 0.—M. EVA NAVONE (C. R. C.). —_————— Be D j'(', L Ohina- é[o(t. ‘ Such a pile of dishes there was ! All the company had gone, leaving Bes- sie and Grandma Dyer alone in the great bouse. Bessie had put on her long pink apron and was standing before the sink containing a pyramid of plates, cups, sau- cers and “nearly everything,” thought Bessie, already a tiny bit discouraged at | the task of “‘doing up” the dishes before | her. Grandma was bustling in and out the partry door, as somehow only dear, ener- getic grandmothers can; now opening the over: door to take & peep at the bread, the next izstant at the cakeboard rolling out | the dough for cookies. **Twill take forever,” sighed Bessie. “What is 1t, dear?” asked grandma, turning, as she caught the almost inaudi. ble sigh. “Nothing,” answered Bessie, slowly. But grandma knew more about little girls than Bessie imagined. “Suppose you keep store—a china store, I mean—this morning,” suggested grand- ma, smiling, “and I'll be your customer. Surely there are enough dishes to make & very respectable showing.” | You ask for these cups and saucers? | hope you are pre:ty well to-da; | tears in his eyes vantagze—and perhaps I'll buy them all at a lot, I'll see.” Bassie remembered having seen the clerk at the china-store brush very care- fully the dishes when grandma bought her soup tvreen. *“I'll make mine look even better.” she thought. | “What I buy I pay for down, in good | coin, too,"” 1aughed grandma. Then she took what dough there was leit and began | making the most mysterious little cookies | —no, coins—imaginable. Some she marked with “1”’ others with *2,” a few with ©5,” in fact th were all denomina- tions. Bessie was too busy getting her wares ready to notice what grandmi was doing. & | ““The now I'm ready to sell my | dishes,” exclaimed Bessie as she placed the last cup on th tab'e. “D’ll be there in a jiff my purse,’’ callel grandma pantry. | In amoment she came to the table—of course I mran counter—with a little book as soon as I get from the | | lunch-bcx under her arm. “Is that the purse you carry your money | in?” asked Bessie, laughing. | When the sleepy man comes with the dust on his eyes (Oh, weary, my Dearle, so weary!) He shuts up the earth and he opens the skies, (S0 hush-a-by, weary my Dearie!) He smiles through his fingers and shuts up the sun; (Oh, weary, my Dearie, so weary!) The stars that he loves he lets out one by one, | (So hush-a-by, weary my Denrie!) He comes from Town; (©n the castles of Drowsy-boy weary, my Dearie, so weary!) At the touch of his hand the tired evelids fall | down. (S0 husn-a-by, weary my Dearie!) He comes with a murmur of dream in his | wings (O, weary, my Dearie, so wears!) And whispers of mermaids snd wonderful things. (S0 hush-a-by, weary my Dearie!) Then the top is a burden, tne bugle 8 bane (© my Dearie, 80 weary!) When one would be faring down Dream-a-way Lane, (So hush-a-by, weary my Dearle!) Lullaty When one would be wending in Wherry (Oh, weary, my Dearie, so we: To Sleepy Man’s Cas (S0 hush-a-by C. D. RoBET Y le by Comforting Ferry. weary my Dearie!) s in Book of the Native. Navone’s letter that he is dead. I should like very much to belong to the C. R. C.; there are £0 many members, and Idon’t want to be left out. Iliketo read the letters, because they are very interesting now. 1think Haywards isa very nice place, for it is like the country, butit is growing a great deal. Thereisa park here callea Haywards Park, and a great many picnics sie held in it. Iwent to our Sunday-school picnic to San Lorenzo Grove and bad a very nice time. 1go to the Presbyterian Sunday-school. Your con- stant reader, ALICE D. JomNSON. GLEN ELLEN, CAL Dear Iditress: 1read the Childhood's Realm and like it very much. I should be very happy to be a member of the C. R. C. We live in the City and have a nice garden. This | summer we are camping at Glen Ellen. I have been going to school three years and a in the fifth grade. 1 havea cute little pug dog named Trilby. | , Our house is near a creek, and cvery summer & number of people from San Francisco come | ere. 1have tried the puzzles and like them very much. | Hoping my letter will escape the waste- Ppaper basket, I remain, your constant reader, GERTRUDE CLEMM. £T0CKTON, Cal., June 7, 1897. Dear Fditress: It is a long time since I wrote that little story about my dog, and I thank you very much for publishing it. I think that the chiidren’s page is very nice, and never let & Sunday go by without reading it. I have two dogs named Jip and Laddte. I | 150 have two cats, one rabbitand three fishes. | Iike pets, and wish every one else would, too. It has been very warm in Stockton this week. It is not a very large pluce, but has a number | of schools. 1go to the Franklin School. There | | are two schocl buiidings next to each other, called the Old Franklin and the New Fiank- lin. The New Franklin has six rooms and the | other ouly has two. I am in the sixth grade in the new building. 1f Iam promoted I shall | have to change schools. I have & very nice teacher. School closes two weeks from next Friday. I shall try to become & member of the C. | R. C. as soon as possible. Please print my let- | teraf you have room. Your constant resder, | | FLORENCE MYTINGER. 1 FRANKLIN, Cal, | Dear Editress: This is my first letter. I | | hope to see it in print. We live in Sacramento County and in a very pleasant place. I am | having vacation now. My teacher’s name is | Miss McLanahan. I like her very much. We A MORNING IN JUNE. “Yes, this kind,” replied grandma. Bessie began to look eurious. “Why, what an excellent lot of dishes you have,” remarked grandma, as she readjusted her spectacles. “Somehow I'm nearly out of everything. What do The; just match some I once had.” “Twenty-five cents a dozen,” Bessie, promptly. “Cheap enough, I declare,” and grand- ma opened her purseand produced the exact chanege in five 5-cent pieces. *‘I'll take a dozen.” “Oh, grandmal” cried Bessie, in sur- vrise, when she saw the brown, sweet coins. *‘Isn’t that the right change?” inquired grandma, businesslike, not appearing to notice the little shopgirl’s wonder. O, yes.” returned Bessie quickly. “How much do you get for these plates? 1 think I want one, two, three—perhaps all you have,” and grandma again opened her purse. “Two cents each at wholesale,” said Bessie. “Vers well,” and grandma counted out answered twenty-two cents. *“Ido wish there were | My tenche adozen!” Bessie put the change into the money- drawer—a bright iwo-quart dish—and went on with the sale, Grandma found the dishes so much to her liking that she bargained for the en- tire lot at a generous price. *I never was so rich before!” laughed Bessie, when the store was closed for the night—there, I meant morning—and sne was counting and actually eating her money. “And I'm delighted with my nice clean dishes, dear,” said grandma, very cor- dially. “I wish there’d been twice as many,’’ and Bessie gave grandma a love kiss as she spoke.—ApeLsert F. CALDWELL in Youth’s Companion. ———e s The minister was a great handshaker, shutting down like a vise. Oce day he shook a boy's hand ana gave it an awful squeeze, as he said: “My little fellow, I » With the boy exclaimed: I was till you shook hands with me.”’—Scot- tish American. T = A little girl, after watching Bridget scour ber pots and pans, told her mother, “Bridget has cleaned ail the cooking in- tentions.” | | 1 Helen—Are you sure God will forgive | took THE CALL & good many years ago and me for mamma? Mamma—Certainly, dear. Helen (reflectively)—Then I wish I had stapped her harder, slapping sister if I ask him, SAN FRANCISCO. Dear Editress: 1am a little girl 10 vears old. I live in the Mission. I go to the Everett Grammar School and am in the fifth grade. 'S name is Miss Evans, and I like her very much. We have taken THE CALL for fifteen years. 1 read the children’s page every Sunday. Iam very much Interested in it. Ihave two little brothers and they go to the Douglass £chool. My brothers’ names are James and Walter. We had a very nice time et school last Friday, as we celebrated Lincoln day. A num- ber of the Grand Army men came to visit. We had singing and recitaiions. We have three weeks more of school yet. We are ail working b T hope I'shall be suceesstul. Hoping you will publish this letter, T re- main, your constant reader, EvA SwITH, FORT BIDWELL, Cal. Dear Fditress: 1 have read the letiers writ- ten by the children belonging to the C. R. C. for some time. My papa takes THE CALL and we enjoyed looking at the pictures of the Cali- | fornia poppies. In my reader there is a poem atout the poppies by Helen Hunt Jackson. I am 10 years old and my little sister Mildred is 5. We live a long ways from tne raiiroad, but it is very pleasant here in the mountains during the summer months. Ishould like to join the C. R. €. Your friend, BERTHA FAY BROWN. HAYWARDS, Cal., June 2, 1897, Dear Editress: This s my third letter to THE CALL. 1am very sorry that little Willie Zimmerman is dead, but I suppose it i for the best. I wrote to him and he answered, but my last letier wasn’t answered,and I was £0ing to write again, but saw rough Eva to get promoted, aud | | then stopped, but we are ta | Yours truly, ng it again now, ANNIE C. GLANN. SN FRANCISCO, Dear Editress: To-day I am going to tell you how I enj d myself Memorial day. Our Sunday-school gave & picnic 10 the park. It was at the back of the Japanese viliage. We enjoyed ourselves as much as if we had gone | 10 E Campo or any other large picnic ground. | There were large trees, and a young man put | up aswing for us. Toward noon a lads, her children and I went up to Strawberry hill. I | 100k a ride in & boat. We then went back to the rest and had our lunch, then ran many races, and about half-past 3 we started for home. I remain, your constant reader, | ELLEN M. C.Tuss (C. R. C.). 2 SUSANVILLE, Cal. Here my friends you plainly see A dancing éirl from farTarkey. | camping at Glen Ellen. | pair of Japanese loving birds, and their names She deesnl’care a fig for Crefe Bafwaves her handsand shakes her féef, She spreads her skirfs and smiles al’ )’mi And dess'iTall fér meney 18 by I lagpbce - crc. Iwrote toyou. Isend & story composed by myself, also 50 cents for a badge and 2 cents GLEN ELLEN, Cal. Dear Editress: 1 nave never written to THE CALL before, so shall try to write an inter- esting letter to you to-day. Inotice that the C. R.C. is incressing in membership and that the letter-box is full of entertaining letterd from boys and girls. My home is in the City.but we are now We have a very cute are “Chippie” and *Chappie.” 1try the puzzles every Sunday and Ishould like to belong to the club. Yours sincerely, RUBY HAMBERGER. SAN FRANCISCO. Dear Editress: We take THE CALL, 1s the first time I ever attempted to write Ihope my effort will miss the wastebask and 1 They have plain front houses bullt of brick, but this | | again, and bave “not put awsy for preserva. tien.” E for postage. 1 hope my letter will be pub-| (b) 1-11 of Maud Mallory. lished in next Sunday’s CALL. Your little | 1-15 of Carrie Gonsalves. | reader, JOSIE V. CRAMER. | 1-10 of Fred Anthes. 1-11 of Retha Waldau. 1-9 of R. O. Lincoln. | 1-13 of M. Lagomarsino. | When you arrange these letters right | You'll'havea C. R. C. boy that’s bright. | 0.—M. EvA NAVONE (C. R. C.), | CONUNDRUNS. X. (@) Why s a schoolgirl larger at ‘recess than at any other time? () If all the men went to Chins where would all the womea go? (¢) Why do you go to bed? §.—C. Epsox (C. R. C.). i (d) If a mother speaks frequently of her | children, how can you be sure she hasmore ,‘ than six? S.—A. GIRARD (C. R. C.). | Answers for June 6. Word squares: | have traveled a good deal since I leit San | 5 Francisco in July, 1896. f# SO HELP I first went to Scranton, Pa., and I saw many | BVNLL coal mines. One strange thing I saw wasin a BTV E butcher-shop. There were stuirs leading ! PLEA down trom his cellar to the mines. My friends | 1L KING wanted me to go down, but I was afraid. IDOL Iaiso visited icego, Ill. It has a lovely | NOTE lake, to which I went nearly every day. Lake GLEN Michigan is very large. From Chicagolwent| IIL 3 to Philadelphia, which is a very pretty place. | U They have no bay-windows in the front of | N their houses, but they have them in the back i E good-by for the present. Your new reader, LOBETTA E. TERRY. V. I understand you undertake to over . Diamond: with white marble up about as far as the first 1v. B windows, and white marblesteps. They scrub | BEE the white marble every day. I have some | BELLE flowers I carried from Philadelphia with me, | ELL ™ and they are very pretty. Ishall have to say | o | | | New Puzzles. [Note—The letters O und S show that the puzzies are 6riginal or that they have oeen selected. ] BEHEADINGS. L (a) Behead, (%) *“To revolve” and have ‘‘a beverage.’” (c) “*A garment” and have *'sn animal.” (d) “A joint of a stem” and have “‘a short poem.” 0.—ALicE BELL (C. R. C.). (¢) Make an “0dd” number “even” by be- headaing it. Now curtail it and one of your parents it becomes. S.—BECKIE HEINO (C. R. C Hidden first names of members of C. K. C. 1L (a) Never will the (t) O, Ernest, Ellen is coming to-night! () She was arrayed in red garments. (d) “He'll do 12" “Oh, no; not he!” O do read to me yourself, then, since he wiil { mot!” (€) Away, Rover, away! 0.—C. GONSALVES (C. R. C.). HIDDEN ANIMALS. TIL (a) Oh! Are you going home? () It is lying upon your bed. (¢) Please catch her for me. (d) Do go with me to the store. 0.—ALICE THOMPSON (C. R. C.). HIDDEN SAMES OF GREAT MEN. 1V. (a) The women are very busy with their washing to-night. (b) Frank, linen is just fine for sails. (c) You should say muslin, Col, not muslun. 0.—LucY MoEILER (C. R. C). to twitch” and have “feevle.” | throw my undertakings. | VL Grammar VIL Fire and water are good | but bad masters. | VUL Rose. IX. Washington. tory: (@) June 14, 1777, adoption of “Stars servants, Ea | and Stripes’ as American flag by Congress. 1agara cease to flow. | (5) June 15, 1215, granting of Magna Char- taon banks of river Thames. First step of English people toward freedom. () June 15, battle of Bunker Hill. (d) une 23, 1621, gift of corn. Gorrespondents. Besides letters published plessant commun. ications have been received from the follow- ing: Mrs. Ella M. Sexton. R. O. Lincoln (C. R. C.), Esther Kelley, Lizzie M. Wienke (C. R. C.), R.tha Waldau (C.R.C.), Floy Hayes, Freda Munster, Audrey Jones and Eva M. Bolger. Exchanges. The following standard periodicals have Round Table, Youth’s Companion, Golden Days. A copy of Sunbeams, a monthly magazine, which has a particular bright | ) { been received during the past week: Harper's | and sweet | juvenile department, has also been received. Solvers. Answers to puzzles of June 6 have been re ceived trom the following members of C. R. C.: Alice Bell, 91{; Retha Waldau, 74; Ida W ght. WORD [SQUARES. man, 81¢; Max Selig, 7'4; Mabel Cass, 81{; M. . 1—A flower. | Eva Navone, 9; L zzie M. Wienke, 91; Mada- 2—Above. | lena Lagomarsiuo 9; Edgar Randall, 8; E¥a 3—Withered. H 4—Sins, E. GIRLS' NAME. VL A tree. To revolye. A hideeus scream. M. Bolger, 9. From non-members for June 6: Olga Meyer, 5; Edna Mohr, 1; Ruby Hamberger, 7; Irene Hastings, 3; Gertrude K. Cenai, 6. Answers from non-members for May 30: Elizabeth Willis. 0.—MAX SELIG (C. R. C.). SRR DIAMOND. Notice. VIL 1—Aletter in slimony. How to become & member of C. R. C. 2—Aruul. 3—Compound of metals, 4—At a distance. 5—A letter in alimony. HARTLEY JACKSON (C. R. C.). VIIL A range of mounteins. LEEEEEE. S.—SANTA ROsA. IX. (@) Transposs letters of & word meaning “‘shaved” and have “formed into a circle” Dear Editress: It has been a long time since again, and have “not separated into classes’ Contribute either story, puzzle, rhyme or drawing to the children’s page. Assoon as your article appears vou must send for tne silver badge of the club. Then your name will be enrolled and you may consider yourself a member. Notice. Send 50 cents for C. R. C. pin_with 2 cents for postage. Address editress. Send stamps, postoffice or Wells-Fgrgo order. | SOME JUNE FIELD BLOS —— SOMS.